Janitor spends 7 years drawing ultra-detailed maze

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The images you are seeing above and below are of one of the most detailed mazes I have ever seen. It looks too complex for anything other than a computer to have created, but it turns out it was drawn by a single man over the course of seven years.

The maze was found by Japanese twitter user @Kay74. She discovered the maze, most likely while searching through some forgotten boxes at home, when she came across this large sheet of paper. It’s A1 in size, so about 33 x 32 inches, and the entire sheet is covered with intricate pathways.

It turns out this is the work of her father who created it about 30 years ago and then just stored it away for safe keeping. You’d think he’s some kind of drawing specialist, or at least has a career that explains why he’d take the time and effort to produce something so detailed over the course of 7 years. That’s not the case, however.

@Kay74’s father works in the athletic’s department of a university. His job is as a janitor.

Since uncovering the maze and tweeting about it, @Kay74 has been bombarded with requests to share it. Clearly there’s a lot of people out there falling over themselves to try and figure out and solve this super complex maze.

So far all she’s done is take pictures of the maze and created a version she can have printed, which she has done on to clear plastic film as well as paper.

It’s unclear whether the maze is solvable as even the father admits he’s never made it all the way through. But surely he designed and drew it with a way out?

I doubt we’ll be waiting long to find out the answer to that question. Even if the maze isn’t solvable, it makes for a fantastic piece of art and will surely appear for sale somewhere, even if it’s just an Etsy shop. And the other good news? Apparently this isn’t the only maze. There’s another one we have yet to see.